nick buys 2 shirts and 4 hats for a total of $44.00.if the hats cost $5.00 each,how much does each shirt cost?

Question

nick buys 2 shirts and 4 hats for a total of $44.00.if the hats cost $5.00 each,how much does each shirt cost?

Answer 1

2 shirts and 4 hats for a total of $44.00 & hats cost $5 each.

 

4 hats would cost $20; subtract that from $44 (total) to get amount spent on 2 shirts.

 

2 shirts cost $24.  Therefore one shirt costs $12, if both shirts had the same price tag.

Answer 2

Hi Siah,

The problem states that Nick bought 2 shirts and 4 hats and paid $44 in total.

 

You know that each hat cost $5, and that 4 hats were bought. Therefore your first step would be to figure out how much the 4 hats cost.

$5 x 4 hats = $20. So Nick spent $20 on hats.

 

The next step would be to subtract the amount spent on hats from the total amount paid; the remaining money would be the total amount of money spent on shirts.

$44 (total) - $20 (hats) = $24 (total spent on shirts).

 

The last step would be to divide the total spent on shirts by the number of shirts that Nick purchased.

$24 (total spent on shirts) / 2 shirts = ??. (Can you do this last step? :-))

 

Hope that helps! Let me know what you get and if this makes sense. :-)

Answer 3

Here,

 

Let cost of shirt be x

 

Now,

 

2x+ 4*5=44

2x=44-20

2x=24

x=24/2

x=12

 

Hence, cost of each shirt is $12.